Interview with Paul Mamakos from Everything Raw

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(NaturalNews) Here's an interview with Paul Mamakos, founder of Everything Raw (www.everythingraw.com). This is the company that makes what I consider to be the very best testing raw food bar on the market today: the Yoga Bar. In this interview, I talk to Paul about his first product, his "Raw Decadence Bar," which has become hugely popular among nutrition and raw foods enthusiasts.

Mike: I would like to introduce Paul Mamakos from Everything Raw, and that's www.everythingraw.com, and what you have here is a new 100% raw food bar. Is that how you describe it, a "food bar?"

Paul: Yeah, it is called the 'Raw Decadence Bar' and all the ingredients are certified organic and they are top-notch quality, and if we do find an ingredient that is not meeting our standards, we will just kind of change out the ingredients.

Mike: So let's talk about the ingredients that are actually in this bar...

Paul: Well, the main ingredient is cacao; it is the whole bitter chocolate pod, and then in addition to that, we have some other nuts such as pecans and raw cashews. We have raw dates, agave, the dark agave, and cinnamon, vanilla and other great stuff, like some cold-pressed coconut oil.

Mike: I can actually taste everything you mentioned. The cinnamon and vanilla are an interesting mix. Now, let's talk about what's not in it, of course: No refined sugars...

Paul: No way!

Mike: No hydrogenated oils, no chemical preservatives. How do you give it any kind of shelf life?

Paul: Well, the moisture content is pretty low. We do dehydrate it a little bit and we vacuum seal the bags, so the low moisture and low air content makes them last longer. And pretty much, they're dry ingredients. Cacao is dry altogether.

Mike: So if you put together the healing properties of all of these things, I mean, in my opinion I think you have an amazing product. The cinnamon helps control blood sugar; the cacao is great for the liver, the brain, the nervous system; and the nuts are excellent brain food. What else is notable in terms of health effects?

Paul: It is a nutrient-dense kind of thing. Like, I love eating cashews; I am more of a yoga kind of person who senses things. I am not a nutritionist, but I can tell you from just eating raw nuts and things like that, I took all these raw ingredients that I liked and over the past year I came up with this recipe. I'm like, "Okay, I really like this stuff, and it's good for me! I know all these different things are good for me, so…"

Mike: You mentioned you are a yoga person. You said before that you spent many years doing yoga and meditation. Can you tell us a little bit about your personal history and your passion for doing this?

Paul: Okay. Around 10 years ago, I started experiencing some meditative states, you could call them. I was going to college at Purdue University in Indiana, West Lafayette, and I had been doing a lot of exercise, running, and then one morning I had like a sleep paralysis experience. You know what that is?

Mike: Yeah, I do know what that is! [laughter] For some people it can be quite terrifying.

Paul: Yeah, it was very terrifying. I was pretty scared. It lasted about a minute, and then I woke up and I didn't know anything about it. After a couple of days I heard on the radio from the Monroe Institute, they were talking on the Arkdale radio program about fluid process and out-of-body experiences, and I got really interested, because it had just happened to me and I wanted to know more!

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